Sea Ice, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Sea Ice and Mountains of Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardSea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It forms in both the Arctic and the Antarctic in each hemisphere’s winter, and it retreats, but does not completely disappear, in the summer. It plays an impor...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Front at Raudfjorden, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardResearch shows that the glaciers in Svalbard are melting and getting smaller. This is taking place because the climate has become generally warmer in the past 100 years. Higher air temperatures have brought a more rapid ...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Front at Raudfjorden, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardResearch shows that the glaciers in Svalbard are melting and getting smaller. This is taking place because the climate has become generally warmer in the past 100 years. Higher air temperatures have brought a more rapid ...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Front at Raudfjorden, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardResearch shows that the glaciers in Svalbard are melting and getting smaller. This is taking place because the climate has become generally warmer in the past 100 years. Higher air temperatures have brought a more rapid ...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier, Northwest Spitsbergen National Park, SvalbardResearch shows that the glaciers in Svalbard are melting and getting smaller. This is taking place because the climate has become generally warmer in the past 100 years. Higher air temperatures have brought a more rapid ...

By Peter Prokosch

Remains of a glacier at Alpefjord, Northeast Greenland National ParkMass loss from the Greenland ice sheet quadrupled over the past two decades, contributing a quarter of the observed global sea-level rise. Increased submarine melting is thought to have triggered the retreat of Greenland...

By Peter Prokosch

Remains of a glacier at Alpefjord, Northeast Greenland National ParkMass loss from the Greenland ice sheet quadrupled over the past two decades, contributing a quarter of the observed global sea-level rise. Increased submarine melting is thought to have triggered the retreat of Greenland...